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Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) .NET, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, SharePoint Online, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

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If you are already familiar with SharePoint 2010, you already know how easy it is to build and deploy a web part now. However, this post is for those that don’t keep up with SharePoint as some of us do and may not realize how the development experience has improved so much. My post How to...

I am pretty passionate about Enterprise Search and with MOSS 2007 I saw customers really struggle because wildcard search was not offered out of the box and most of the web parts in Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebParts are sealed. Luckily, the most important one CoreResultsWebPart was in fact...

This is already starting to be an interesting topic, so I wanted to post about it. We’ll start with the facts. SharePoint 2010 only runs on 64 bit operating systems In the past, SharePoint developers have pretty much always had to develop in a virtual environment Windows Virtual PC does not support...

Curious to know what the Services on Server page looks like now? Well, then this is the post for you. Instead of just having the 6 or so services that you had in MOSS 2007, there are many more services listed on the Services on Server page. Here is what your list might look like (pending...

Microsoft really answered the call of developers by adding several new events that developers had been wanting in MOSS 2007. Event better, Visual Studio 2010 really makes it easy by using the new Add Event Receiver wizard. It provides an interface with all of the possible things you might...

If you are like me when you get a new product, you look at every possible little thing you can find to see what’s new or different. That’s why I post this today because I figured you might be interested in what the databases might looks like in the next version. Of course, as usual this is...

With MOSS, it seemed like most web part developers tended to avoid changing the version of their DLL, because it lead to numerous headaches as you had to update the .webpart file. You also had to update any page that you might have the web part on as well so that it would load the new version. ...

This is another topic that is quite dear to most SharePoint developers. We’ve all been there. We want to know if a list item exists and the indexer is useless. It throws an exception should we attempt to access an item that does not exist. Well as we discovered this week there...

You might have seen that there is a new designer for working with web parts in Visual Studio 2010. This is actually, not quite the case, so I thought I would share with you how it actually works. When you use the Visual Web Part SPI (SharePoint Project Item), it will create a number of files...

This is a bitter subject with most MOSS 2007 developers because the most common way to do this is by using a try/catch block when you try to use the indexer on SPListCollection. Well, I am pleased to tell you about a new method I discovered on SPListCollection that really made my day. The...